KV-cache is one of those pieces that only looks invisible until a long chat starts crowding out memory. Each generated token adds keys and values that have to stay around for later attention, so cache precision is not a trivia setting. It is part of the capacity plan.

lizard-native makes that choice explicit with f16, q8_0, and q4_0 KV-cache precision. That matters because the trade is real: preserve more fidelity, or fit more context inside the same machine budget. When the decision is hidden, people tend to blame the model when the actual limit is memory.

The useful part is not that one setting is always best. It is that the runtime surfaces the cost where the user can reason about it. On a laptop or a small workstation, that changes the conversation from “why did this stop?” to “what do I want to spend memory on?”

In practice, I would rather see a clear cache trade than a vague “supported” label. It gives operators something they can tune against the session length they actually need, instead of discovering the limit after the context has already grown. When you are sizing local inference for real users, do you bias toward higher cache precision or more room for conversation length?

Engineering fact: lizard-native exposes f16, q8_0, and q4_0 KV-cache precision as an explicit context-length versus memory trade.

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